Artist John Glover
Artist John Glover is a highly accomplished portraitist, landscape painter and experienced art tutor. His portrait subjects have included people from all walks of life, from grand official portraits of academic Masters or Chairmen of Councils, to smaller, more intimate family groups or individual studies.
| John Glover’s work ranges from portraits in which he has captured the character and dignity of age, to paintings in which the innocence of childhood is portrayed. John works in all mediums from pencil to watercolour, pastel to oils.
Born in Scotland in 1945, John Glover studied at the Glasgow School of Art from 1963 – 1967 and at Jordanhill College of Further Education from 1967 – 1968. In 1992 he completed a BA Arts Degree with the Open University. |
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 Val the Potter by John Glover |
Portrait Painting John Glover is a highly accomplished and experienced portrait painter. His subjects have included people from all walks of life, from grand official portraits of academic Masters or Chairmen of Councils, to smaller, more intimate family groups or individual studies. His work ranges from portraits in which he has captured the character and dignity of age, to others where it is the innocence of childhood that is portrayed. |
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Landscape Painting John Glover is also an estimable landscape painter and has exhibited widely. “I love working out of doors and battling with the elements. My paintings capture windswept Scottish beaches, vast East Anglian skies, the glowing colours of France and the magic of Venice” |
| WATCH TWO MINUTE VIDEO OF JOHN GLOVER PAINTING A PORTRAIT IN JUST 80 mins John Glover works in all mediums from pencil to watercolour, pastel to oils. This was a genuine demonstration during one of our art holidays in Menorca. |
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John Glover’s portrait of ‘Val and Betty’ (left) was published in Artists’ & Illustrators’ Magazine and judged the ‘Most Popular Painting’ by the public at the Autumn Exhibition of the Cambridge Drawing Society in 2007 |
